Team Leadership and Development. Managed daily activities of US/PR Payroll Team, 31 country Global Payroll Relationship, and Global HRIS Team. During transition kept the MJN Portfolio of HRIS Cloud Applications running and supported on the most current versions of the vendors' software. Collaborated with RB HRIS Peers to execute strategy to migrate and merge the HR Technologies of MJN with HR Technologies of RB. Vendor Management responsibilities included additional needs to negotiate early exit terminations and short term extensions of existing contracts.

Reporting to the HR Leadership Team (HRLT), developed short and long term HR Technology strategy matching the needs of functional areas of HR, acquiring approval and funding for HR Projects making them part of Corporate Strategic Planning and Project Portfolio. Managed daily activities and talent for US/PR Payroll, Global Payroll, and HRIS Team of application owners and support personnelHighlights:• Delivered 4 modules of SAP SuccessFactors in 7 months, $450K under budget, and on time after prior vendor provided a 6-9 month going out of business notice.• Designed and delivered a validated, combined Learning and Document Management system in 8 months and $325K under budget when executives from Regulatory and Compliance required employees to have one place to train and store their training records.• Reduced the budget in HR by 12% reorganizing the HRIS Team by developing hybrid roles that included application ownership, user group training, and technical support for HR applications.• Able to save $300K - $400K integration and interface costs over 2 years on multiple projects leveraging personal capabilities, developing team resources, and eliminating external fees.• Program Management Office Executive Team member overseeing delivery of annual technology budget of $90M accountable to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) for Project Portfolio meeting budgets and timelines.

Recruited and relocated to build a sustainable US/PR support team when MJN divested from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and needed a stand-alone payroll for the first time. Leveraged experience from prior work in company just going through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to proactively set up controls, processes, and partnerships between Payroll and multiple business areas.Highlights:• Reduced ADP expenses by 20% by establishing strong governance and partnership with ADP and collaborating on cost reduction ideas like paperless, defining planned payrolls as part of the contract, and eliminating the costs of additional payrolls.• Solved carryover implementation issues with custom 401(k) program, Regular Rate of Pay Calculations, and GTL issues by personally reviewing programming and configuration advising ADP technical support on changes needed.• Organized and developed 4 person US Payroll Team including new manager by recruiting internal strong performers with transferable skills, having 3 of 4 attain CPP certification through a designed training plan.• Implemented the integration of ADP Payroll with Sapien HRIS allowing the HRIS to be the system of record and building the control of no modifiable rights to the payroll system.• Proactively developed the internal relationships that US Payroll needs with Treasury, Finance, Audit, SOX, and Corporate Tax leveraging 15 years of payroll supervision in a public company.

Working independently in a specialized area took assignments with consulting companies that needed regulatory and software validation expertise on their engagementsBusiness to business consulting on software implementations, regulatory compliance, enterprise system integrations, IT strategic planning, and IT organizational development in quality, policies, procedures, governance, and client partnership.Highlights:• Contracted by Chicago based consulting firm and delivered IQ/OQ/PQ test script library for validation package of generic drug distribution warehouse software one month ahead of schedule resulting in an expanded statement of work due to satisfaction.• Contracted by Pittsburgh based software company to work on 3-person team installing Florida tax and licensing software in multiple counties delivering custom training manuals for the individual tax office software users.

Promoted into this highest IT position in the organization when Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board of Directors asked for someone to lead the IT response to FDA citations around systems and processes. Managed global team of business analysts and programmers, daily system availability of all corporate technology systems, IT Project Portfolio, and weekly status presentations to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) on FDA remediation/response projects. Highlights:• Using leadership skills, knowledge, and research; led IT organizational restructure, building the company’s first IT PMO, IT Governance Program, SDLC Methodology, and influencing the decision to make IT a more strategic partner in corporate strategy.• Met 24 month promised timeline in FDA response leading 3 IT Sr. Managers and teams clearing up 100% of technology and process issues in the findings, following new IT processes, retroactively retesting when needed.• Introduced new HR Positions followed by executing recruiting plans to find the talent filling 4 Business Relationship Managers and CIO positions with resources experienced in the medical device industry

Managed applications and support analysts and developers for all technologies used in the Finance, Payroll, and HR areas of the business. Hands on work included maintaining the tables and source code, completing version upgrades, building interfaces for multiple software applications in client-server environment, and serving as Project Manager on all IT projects in Finance, Payroll, and HR.Highlights:• Trained as an APPX Developer with the software company, hired another experienced developer, designed HRIS application, and implemented it for global use. Recognized for providing a solution worth millions to the business when funding for an outside system was not available• Led multiple system implementations of bespoke and client/server business applications as well as moving all applications from an HP Unix platform to a Linux platform.• Served more than 12 years in leadership roles on benefit committees managing company bargaining unit contract, defined benefit and contribution plans, health & welfare programs, and audit engagements.• Chaired the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Team and led a team of Financial Directors to establish the company's first set of controls to satisfy new SOX requirements

Growth IPO Company brought in to build an internal US Payroll Team implementing APPX Payroll as a client-server application with rights to develop the software. Grew hybrid role continuing to Manage Payroll moving on to first role in IT starting as a Developer in Payroll application.• Recruited and built US Payroll Team while implementing and maintaining APPX client-server payroll application for 2000 employees, 600 unionized, operating in 44 states. Application was used over the 15-year life of the public company integrating many acquired companies while in use.• Successfully made program changes to payroll application expanding direct deposit functionality, automating union dues calculation, and expanding the date fields in the application for the year 2000.